Charity Shop Trawl

[LeMartinPecheur]

Not so much a trawl as a completely freaky coincidence.

Just had 2 very good weeks' hols in Northumberland, which is quite a long way from Cornwall. On way north, what better excuse to overnight at Bishops Castle, Salop, a most pleasant town which just happens to contain Yarborough House, an estimable retailer of s/h classical LPs and CDs, and books of all descriptions (also excellent non-s/h tea, coffee and cakes for the non-classically aligned and/or illiterate).

In their bargain bin was the original Unicorn-Kanchana CD of music by John Buller. Can't find its artwork to paste, but the same recordings are still available on NMC
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Snapped it up for a couplerquid with a good few other discs and proceeded northwards to a very nice cottage in Northumberland. Nearest small town was Haltwhistle. Hey, it's got ONE charity shop, and... hey, they've got a goodish run of LPs and...hey, a fair few - but no massive number - are classical

Guess what? Not one but both of the original Buller Unicorn LPs, from c.1979 and '85!! Don't recall in 40yrs+ of record collecting ever having seen either of them, or the CD. So perhaps there is a god, and He has a sense of humour

(Didn't buy the LPs if anyone wishes to rush out looking (£1 ea. IIRC). I shall rest content with the CD...)

[PS For those with well-off-beaten-track tastes, one LP I did buy in said Haltwhistle shop was a Melodiya of piano works by Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis (1875-1909), apparently played by those legendary pianists A.Dvarionaite and V. Bacenas I'd heard of MKC but AFAIK never previously heard a note.

Anyone here big on Cuirlionis??

...roehre...?]

[pastoralguy]

I picked up the complete 'Swan Lake' played by Maestro Gergiev and his Kirov Orchestra for 99p in a BHF shop yesterday. I told them to put the 1p change in the tin!

Very interesting performance.

[teamsaint]

Not so much a trawl as a completely freaky coincidence.

Just had 2 very good weeks' hols in Northumberland, which is quite a long way from Cornwall. On way north, what better excuse to overnight at Bishops Castle, Salop, a most pleasant town which just happens to contain Yarborough House, an estimable retailer of s/h classical LPs and CDs, and books of all descriptions (also excellent non-s/h tea, coffee and cakes for the non-classically aligned and/or illiterate).

In their bargain bin was the original Unicorn-Kanchana CD of music by John Buller. Can't find its artwork to paste, but the same recordings are still available on NMC
C
Snapped it up for a couplerquid with a good few other discs and proceeded northwards to a very nice cottage in Northumberland. Nearest small town was Haltwhistle. Hey, it's got ONE charity shop, and... hey, they've got a goodish run of LPs and...hey, a fair few - but no massive number - are classical

Guess what? Not one but both of the original Buller Unicorn LPs, from c.1979 and '85!! Don't recall in 40yrs+ of record collecting ever having seen either of them, or the CD. So perhaps there is a god, and He has a sense of humour

(Didn't buy the LPs if anyone wishes to rush out looking (£1 ea. IIRC). I shall rest content with the CD...)

[PS For those with well-off-beaten-track tastes, one LP I did buy in said Haltwhistle shop was a Melodiya of piano works by Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis (1875-1909), apparently played by those legendary pianists A.Dvarionaite and V. Bacenas I'd heard of MKC but AFAIK never previously heard a note.

Anyone here big on Cuirlionis??

...roehre...?]

only just caught up with this excellent post, which deserves some sort of response.

Sounds like a good trip, LMP, and some interesting shopping done. Better than pots of chutney from tourist trap shops.

Quire a coincidence about the Buller.

anyway, giving Ciurlionis' " The Sea" a spin to see what his stuff is like.

[pastoralguy]

One of these wonderful days when almost every shop I've entered has yielded something!

First up was a set of the Mozart piano concertos played by Karl Engel with the Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg under Leopoldo Hager. (Warner Classics). I checked my booty on Amazon to gather prices and other opinions and found that someone had given this set 1 * claiming the piano was out of tune. I have to say that it sounds to me and if the playing lacks the ultimate refinement of Perahia or Uchida it's still pretty good. Maybe a set to keep in the cd box in the motor car!

Next up, Bob van Asperen playing Bach's concertos for 2, 3, & 4 Harpsichords. 2 discs for £1.49

Bernie Haitink and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Mahler 1. The same team in Brahms' 2nd Piano Concerto. 50p each!

Sir Colin Davis and the LSO playing Smetana's ' Ma Vlast' on LSO Live. 99p

Chopin and Rachmaninov's 'cello sonatas. Alexander Kniazev & Nikolai Lugansky on Warner Classics. £1.50

A 2 cd set of Carlo Curley playing Organ favourites on Decca. £1.

An EMI Studio cd of Perlman playing Spanish music. £1.25

Tchaikovsky's Complete Nutcracker, 1812, Romeo & Juliet, Francesca da Rimini and Romeo & Juliet. Maris Jansons conducting the LPO and the Oslo Philharmonic on EMI. £1.50.

Pretty good haul, I think!

[vinteuil]

One of these wonderful days when almost every shop I've entered has yielded something!

First up was a set of the Mozart piano concertos played by Karl Engel with the Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg under Leopoldo Hager. (Warner Classics). I checked my booty on Amazon to gather prices and other opinions and found that someone had given this set 1 * claiming the piano was out of tune. I have to say that it sounds to me and if the playing lacks the ultimate refinement of Perahia or Uchida it's still pretty good. Maybe a set to keep in the cd box in the motor car!

Next up, Bob van Asperen playing Bach's concertos for 2, 3, & 4 Harpsichords. 2 discs for £1.49

Bernie Haitink and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Mahler 1. The same team in Brahms' 2nd Piano Concerto. 50p each!

Sir Colin Davis and the LSO playing Smetana's ' Ma Vlast' on LSO Live. 99p

Chopin and Rachmaninov's 'cello sonatas. Alexander Kniazev & Nikolai Lugansky on Warner Classics. £1.50

A 2 cd set of Carlo Curley playing Organ favourites on Decca. £1.

An EMI Studio cd of Perlman playing Spanish music. £1.25

Tchaikovsky's Complete Nutcracker, 1812, Romeo & Juliet, Francesca da Rimini and Romeo & Juliet. Maris Jansons conducting the LPO and the Oslo Philharmonic on EMI. £1.50.

Pretty good haul, I think!

... one might - I'm just saying one might - almost think you was bragging ...

[pastoralguy]

... one might - I'm just saying one might - almost think you was bragging ...

I probably, subconsciously, am! Mind you, it makes up for the many occasions when a trawl yields little or nothing.

[cloughie]

Yesterday I picked up for 50p Schubert String Quintet - Rostropovich with the EmersonSQ on DG.

[pastoralguy]

Yesterday I picked up for 50p Schubert String Quintet - Rostropovich with the EmersonSQ on DG.

[visualnickmos]

Yesterday I picked up for 50p Schubert String Quintet - Rostropovich with the EmersonSQ on DG.

Best value 50p - ever!!!!!!

[Conchis]

Today, in Buxton:

Tannhauser - Bayreuth, Elmendorff (1930, on Pearl) - £2.99

Copland - Chamber Works - 30p.

[pastoralguy]

A charity shop in the Corstorphine area of Edinburgh has come to the end of its lease. So, 5 CDs for £2.00!

Karl Rankl. Mahler 4 with Sena Jurinac and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Guild label.

Beecham conducts Delius. 2 disc EMI set.

John Ogdon plays Chopin. (The disc spells his name Ogden!)

DSCH Symphony 8. Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Goossens conducts Bax. Dutton.

[Bryn]

A couple of days ago, from a charity shop in Windsor, a bit of nostalgia, Elsie Morison, Marjorie Thomas, Richard Lewis, James Milligan, The Huddersfield Choral Society, RLPO, Sir Malcolm Sargent: Handel's Messiah. Love this paragraph from Sargent's notes for the recording:

I have used clarinets in this performance to supply certain "organ-chording" effects. Their tone-quality blends well, and , although it is true that they are an anachronism, I must point out that the conductors who object to them are themselves an anachronism! They should not be there at all. The conductor, as such, was unknown in Handel's day. Direction was done from the keyboard, by sound rather than by sight.

[mikealdren]

I don't know that performance but I do love Sargent's 1946 performance: Huddersfield and RLPO with Isobel Bailey, Gladys Ripley etc. Even in these HIPP days, it still hit the spot.

Mike

[Barbirollians]

I always think Sargent was a much better conductor of choral works than just about anything else - his early Gerontius with Heddle Nash is much my favourite account of the work .

[alycidon]

A few weeks ago in Selkirk, of all places, I picked up the DG offering of the Pergolesi Stabat Mater still wrapped. £1.